Subject: dpkg fails with old tar
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.1.2
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Severity: critical
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I upgraded dpkg from 1.16.0.3 to 1.16.1.2, and was then
unable to install, upgrade, or downgrade any other package,
or dpkg itself. This turns out to have been because my
version of tar was 1.22-2, which did not understand the
argument "--warning=no-timestamp" apparently passed by dpkg.
The proper solution is probably one of:
1. add a dependency for dpkg on a version of tar that it can use, or
2. fix dpkg's dependence on recent versions of tar, or
3. make dpkg adapt gracefully to older versions of tar
Probably best would be to "recommend" a newer version of
tar, but work correctly with older versions anyhow.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5 The GNU core utilities
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting
file co
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii libselinux1 2.0.98-1 SELinux runtime shared
libraries
ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100307-1 XZ-format compression
utilities
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library -
runtime
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.8.15.9 Advanced front-end for
dpkg
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